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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicEngineering admissions

Topic: engineering admissions

India’s engineering courses are losing their sheen. Low enrolment, placement rates present grim picture

Educationists & policy makers have been flagging the falling demand for engineering courses across the board for some time. Data shows a sustained decline over the years.

8 FIITJEE centres close ahead of exams as several teachers resign over salary delays, cuts

Centres have closed in Meerut, Ghaziabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Bhopal, Patna & Delhi, it is learnt. Parents approach police demanding accountability & refunds.

‘Cushier jobs, computer science craze’ — why Civil & Mechanical engineering courses have fewer takers

AICTE's 5-year data shows Civil & Mechanical branches continue to see less than 50% admission while Computer Science & Electronics remain popular choices with over 60% admission rate.

Demand for core engineering courses on rise, shows AICTE data. Computer science, electronics remain favourites

Admission percentage in most core engineering branches hit 5-yr high in 2021-22. Placements too went up, paving way for opening of new engineering colleges after ban on same was lifted.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.